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I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything. The sun came up like gold through the trees, and over the fields, and I felt like I was in heaven.

Harriet Tubman

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Harriet Tubman
Age: 91 †
Born: 1822
Born: March 6
Died: 1913
Died: March 10
Abolitionist
Activist
Human Rights Activist
Nurse
Suffragist
Writer
Dorchester County
Maryland
Araminta Ross
Harriet Ross Tubman
Minty Ross
Araminta Ross Broadus
Harriet Tubman Davis
Araminta Harriet Ross
Black Moses
Garriet Tabman
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Fields
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Everything
Tree
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Heaven
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I would fight for my liberty so long as my strength lasted, and if the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me.
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I link dar's many a slaveholder'll git to Heaven. Dey don't know no better. Dey acts up to de light dey hab.
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Lord, I'm going to hold steady on to You and You've got to see me through.
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I grew up like a neglected weed, ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it. Then I was not happy or contented: every time I saw a white man I was afraid of being carried away.
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I had crossed de line of which I had so long been dreaming. I was free but dere was no one to welcome me to de land of freedom, I was a stranger in a strange land.
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The Lord who told me to take care of my people meant me to do it just as long as I live, and so I did what he told me.
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